Dearinger v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
468 F.2d 1032 · 1972
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 1994
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on United States v. Wade · North Carolina v. Pearce · Simmons v. United States · Stovall v. Denno · Gilbert v. California
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a very substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[W]e hold that each case must be considered on its own facts, and that convictions based on eyewitness identification at trial following a pretrial identification by photograph will be set aside on that ground only if the photographic identification procedure was so imper-missibly suggestive as to give rise to a very substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Canada“presents a far different situation than where witness [ ] can be obtained with little delay”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.